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“Math is fun. MATH IS FUN!” I regularly say, shout, chant, and sing to my kiddos. What they’ll never hear me confess is: “I’m not a math person,” “Some people just aren’t good at numbers,” or “I’m bad at math.” All thoughts I’ve 100% had. Why this double-life? Because I want my kids to relish […]

If you have young children that are school age, you are beginning to hear rumblings around this time of year about the 100th day of school. Even if your children are older and the days of elementary school are long gone, I am sure you have fond memories of supplying a collection of 100 […]

I keep making the same parenting mistake over and over I need desperately need to learn to stop. I need to teach myself to quit being such a “tiger mom” before I end up seriously harming my kids. Already I can see that pushing my three year old son to write his name ended up […]

1 + 2 = 3 Three is a tough number. I didn’t need a parenting book to tell me that. I lived it every time we visited my Aunt Monique’s house in Quebec City. My older sister would pair up with my cousin and I was the third wheel, perpetually left out, teased, and tormented. […]

The Kidlet, age six, was showing off her subtraction skills to a crowd of admiring family and friends. “Wow, you know your stuff! Soon you’ll be better than your mom! She’s terrible at math.” My kids have heard comments like that all their lives. And it always makes me want to flip a table and […]